While the script is recited paratroopers perform the actions they will do when jumping from the aircraft, while being observed to ensure they are done correctly.

While well-balanced ( some paratroopers and rangers mastered the art of using the M3 as a throwing knife ), the M3's blade was criticized as being too narrow for rough usage, particularly for utility tasks such as opening ammo crates and food tins, while its edge was found to be somewhat difficult to sharpen.

While the image of warriors with frilly skirts tucked into their boots may seem impractical to a contemporary audience, modern paratroopers use a similar method to blouse their trousers over their jumpboots.

While these boots are sometimes worn by non-paratroopers in Portugal, only paratroopers wear them with surplus green paracord instead of the usual black string.

While there should be no attempt to justify the killing of civilians by British paratroopers, senior defence officials emphasised that the events of Bloody Sunday were " a tragedy which belonged to another era " and should not reflect badly on present day's Armed forces.

While Louis was at Worms gathering a new force, Lothair marched north.

In the army, Nurmi quickly impressed in the athletic competitions: While others marched, Nurmi ran the whole distances with a rifle on his shoulder and a backpack full of sand.

While he was there, the Israel Defence Forces attacked the city and as a result most of its civilian population was forced to leave, and marched for three days without food or water until they reached the Arab front lines.

While Bacon was at Jamestown with his small army, eight colonists were killed on the frontier in Henrico County ( where he marched from ) due to a lack of manpower on the frontier.

While the unit is marched around the field by the drill sergeant ( Pete ), Donald is distracted by Douglas C-47 Skytrains flying overhead, reminding him that he would rather be flying.

While there, on November 30, 1776, he and Covenhoven were captured in the middle of the night, dragged from their beds by loyalists, stripped of their property and marched to Perth Amboy and turned over to the British.

While he marched towards Palermo, his fleet followed close by the coastal road.

While none of the songs were performed by Laurel and Hardy, the two briefly danced and marched in a memorable scene to " March of the Toys ".

While Pupienus marched to Ravenna, where he oversaw the campaign against Maximinus, Balbinus remained in Rome, but failed to keep public order.

While the team dropped to second in the Norris Division during the regular season, they marched all the way to the 1992 Stanley Cup Finals in the playoffs.

While the infantry marched, the drummer and fifer set the beat.

While King Edward marched through the subdued realm, the Scots nobles captured at Dunbar were taken south in chains.

While other conservative magazines like the National Review and The Weekly Standard marched more or less in lockstep with the Bush Administration, " The American Conservative " argued for a different course — sometimes with greater ferocity than the major political magazines on the left.

While Tecumseh was still in the south, Governor Harrison marched his army north along the Wabash River from Vincennes with more than 1, 000 men on an expedition to intimidate the Prophet and his followers.

" While Clark and his men marched across country, 40 men left in an armed row-galley, which was to be stationed on the Wabash River below Vincennes to prevent the British from escaping by water.

While Gandhi marched along India's west coast, his close associate C. Rajagopalachari, who would later become independent India's first Governor-General, did a salt march in parallel on the east coast.

While in Vienna, Trenck's Pandurs marched the streets before invading Prussia.

Shahabuddin marched back to Ghazni While camping at Dhamayak in 1206 AD in the Jehlum district, the sultan was murdered by the Khokhars.

While being convoyed to his exile in 1835 at Vyatka, Herzen met a unit of emaciated Jewish cantonists, some 8 years old, who were marched to Kazan.

While on the march with his army one winter, Alexander the Great was sitting by a campfire, watching the army as it marched by.

While Waller continued to shadow the King, Essex marched into the West Country, to relieve Lyme Regis which was under siege, and then to subdue Devon and Cornwall.

While Sir Malcolm Arnold did use Colonel Bogey in his score for the film, it was only the first theme and a bit of the second theme of Colonel Bogey, whistled unaccompanied by the British prisoners several times as they marched into the prison camp, the whistled theme eventually supported by the first theme of Arnold ’ s original “ River Kwai March ”, the opening theme of which was based on the same chord progression as the first theme of Colonel Bogey.

While Selim I was on his Egyptian campaign, an Alevi preacher named Celal gathered about 20, 000 people near Bozok ( current day Yozgat ) and marched to Tokat to foment riots.

While the Byzantine army held the Muslim forces in Southern Syria, and had expected the reinforcement from the conventional Syria-Arabia road in South, Khalid, who was in Iraq, marched through the Syrian desert and entered Northern Syria, completely taking the Byzantines by surprise, cutting off their communications with Northern Syria.

While both shared the same route at the outer ends, the TTC favoured a route which continued eastwards from Christie station to Pape station.

While the Swedish statesmen envisaged the creation of a Trans-Baltic dominion extending northwards to Archangelsk and eastwards to Vologda, De la Gardie and other Swedish soldiers, still holding Novgorod and Ingria, saw the war as a reaction for their forces not receiving payment for their succour during the De la Gardie Campaign.

While it likely arrived earlier, Mourvèdre had a well establish presence in Roussillon region of France by at least the 16th century where it spread eastwards towards Provence and the Rhone.

While the well known Tuareg occupy the Aïr Mountains and Agadez to the west, and still operate the salt caravans for Hausa merchants, the true inhabitants of the Ténéré, found from oases like Fachi eastwards, are the non-Berber Kanuri and Toubou, the latter thought to be descended from among the original inhabitants of the Sahara.

While he interfered less in the day-to-day movements of units than at Arnhem, he still kept himself fully informed on the situation, slowing the Allies ' progress, inflicting heavy casualties and taking full advantage of the fortifications the Germans called the Westwall, better known to the Allies as the Siegfried Line.

While all other objectives had been achieved, the failure to secure the Arnhem road bridge over the Rhine meant that the operation failed in its ultimate objective.

While the Reconnaissance Battalion was scouting to the south of Arnhem, Colonel John Frost's 2nd Battalion of the British 1st Airborne Division had advanced into Arnhem and prepared defensive positions at the northern end of the bridge.

While over 5, 000 U. S. airmen had been killed and over 1, 000 more were either missing in action ( MIA ), or captured ( prisoners of war / POW ); the USAF 100th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing had flown approximately 3, 435 UAV missions during the war, at a cost of about 554 UAVs lost to all causes.

While in the past there were differences between the siyur units, due to the experiences of the past decades the IDF is now consolidating them into larger units with many different capabilities: battalion-sized units called Gadsar ( contraction of Gdud siyur, " Reconnaissance battalion ").

While a member of the 3247th Test Squadron, Lindsey served as the deputy director, Advanced Tactical Airborne Reconnaissance System Joint Test Force and as the squadron ’ s F-16 Flight Commander.

While the 11th Pathfinder Company was assigned to the 1st Air Cavalry Division's reconnaissance section, units such as the 1st Infantry Division, 101st Airborne ( Airmobile ), 82nd Airborne ( 3rd Brigade ), etc., operated Ranger or LRRP ( Long Range Reconnaissance Patrols ) companies within their reconnaissance elements.

In February and March 1945, P-40 fighter pilots from 133 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force operating out of RCAF Patricia Bay ( Victoria, British Columbia ), intercepted and destroyed two fire balloons, On 21 February, Pilot Officer E. E. Maxwell While shot down a balloon, which landed on Sumas Mountain, in Washington State.

While deployed to the Gulf region in December 1998, the F-16s from the 522nd Fighter Squadron provided close air support alert, defensive counter air alert and interdiction in Iraq.

While the unit ( as an administrative entity ) departed to save Air Force dollars for development of new follow-on B-1 munitions, the organization ’ s aircraft remained at Ellsworth ( in a flying reserve status ) under the able care of its sister unit, the 37th Bomb Squadron.

While remaining in state service the 1st Squadron of Cavalry additionally formed the 2nd Squadron, 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry, also known as the " Rough Riders " ( mustered into federal service 6 – 7 May 1898 at Santa Fe ; mustered out of federal service 15 September 1898 at Montauk Point, New York ).

While machine guns and cannon were sufficient against infantry and light vehicles, for operations against tanks heavier weapons were needed such as the 40 mm Vickers S gun which equipped the Hawker Hurricane to good effect in North Africa Campaign ( notably No. 6 Squadron RAF ).

While he readied his new air group, he suffered what he intended as only a temporary separation from his beloved VF-6 " Felix the Cat " Squadron.

While under U. S. administration, on Thursdays a C-130 Hercules from the 345th Tactical Airlift Squadron, Yokota Air Base, Japan, would resupply the island on weekly missions.

While they quickly got off the road Pearce continued further west to alert 4CLY's B Squadron.

While Cochran was in England, in September 1942, General Arnold authorized the formation of the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron ( WAFS ) under the direction of Nancy Harkness Love.

While there is a hospital as a building of the Marine Self Defense Force, there are Escort Flotilla ( Destroyers ), Submarine Flotilla and the Training Squadron in the Kure District.

While with 29 Squadron, based at RAF West Malling, Gibson

While assigned to Fighter Squadron 111 ( VF-111 ) and Fighter Squadron 1 ( VF-1 ) from April 1972 to September 1975, he saw duty aboard the USS Coral Sea ( CVA-43 ) and the USS Enterprise ( CVN-65 ), flying combat missions in Southeast Asia in the F-4 with VF-111 and making the initial operational carrier deployment of the F-14 Tomcat with VF-1.

While only in operational service with the USAAS for a short time, the Nieuport 28 was the first fighter to be used on operations by a U. S. Squadron.

While a member of the 3247th Test Squadron, Chilton served as squadron safety officer, as chief of test and evaluation, and as squadron operations officer.

While assigned to VMA-331, he attended Marine Aviation Warfare and Tactics Instructor Course and was subsequently assigned as the Squadron Weapons and Tactics Instructor.

While the 34th Bomb Squadron deployed to Diego Garcia as the B-1 component of the 28th Air Expeditionary Wing, the wing sent a Base Operations Support package to Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, to transform the bare base into a fully functional airfield for large-scale combat operations.

While at Cambridge he joined the University Air Squadron and leant to fly.

While he could have blamed a variety of factors, such as the strange currents produced from the Japan earthquake, for the loss of Destroyer Squadron Eleven, Captain Watson was said to have set a great example for those under his command by allowing the blame to be set upon his shoulders.

While NAS Fallon provides training for visiting Carrier air wings, the Strike Fighter Squadron 127 ( VFA-127 ), the " Desert Bogeys ", was the air station's only permanently based squadron from October 1987 until it was disestablished on March 23, 1996.

While carrying out a mission for the All-Star Squadron, TNT and Dyna-Mite are ambushed by members of Axis America.

While flying as a navigator in a B-25 with the 100th Bombardment Squadron, 42nd Bombardment Group, 13th Air Force, his plane and two other B-25s were shot down in the Philippines in March 1945 during a low level bombing and strafing run against Japanese targets.